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MINNEAPOLIS -- Nine individuals were inducted into Augsburg College's Athletic Hall of Fame during the annual enshrinement ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 20 at the Hoversten Chapel in Foss Center. The nine individuals are the 39th class to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, a group that now includes 268 individuals and one team.

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2011 Hall of Fame inductees:

MIKE BURKHARDT '81 (Men's Hockey/Baseball)
Burkhardt played two seasons of men's hockey and baseball at Augsburg, after transferring from the University of Minnesota. In hockey, he was a goalie on two MIAC championship teams (1979-80 and 1980-81), in addition to winning the NAIA national championship in the 1981 season. In 42 career games over two seasons, he compiled a 35-7 record with a 3.68 goals-against-average and .844 save percentage, putting him in the top 10 in school history in each career category (third in wins, eighth in GAA, seventh in save percentage). Burkhardt earned All-MIAC honorable-mention honors in 1980 and All-MIAC honors in 1981, while also earning team MVP and NAIA All-American honors in 1981. In baseball, he played two seasons as a catcher for the Auggies, serving as a team co-captain his senior year. Burkhardt served as an assistant coach for Augsburg's men's hockey team for four seasons (2004-08). He also was a high school hockey head coach for the Minneapolis Marshall-University and Minneapolis North high school teams from 1982-85, was a football assistant coach at Minneapolis Marshall in 1980-81, and was a volunteer assistant coach and goalie coach at Minnehaha Academy in 2003-04. He also played on a senior men's hockey national championship team in 1986. He has served as a baseball instructor for the Solid Foundation Baseball School since 2005, and as a coach in several sports in both Burnsville and Minneapolis for the past decade. Burkhardt graduated from Augsburg in 1981 with a finance major, and has worked in various finance and accounting positions, including at the Fingerhut Corporation from 1992-2002, and most recently at the UnitedHealth Group (2002-present), where he is Vice President of Finance for Capital Reporting. He has also served as treasurer for R.O.C.K. Ministries of Minneapolis since 2007. Burkhardt and his wife, Sheryl, have three children – Hillary, Ellen and Mark – and live in Burnsville, Minn.

CARRIE (LIND) CABE '01 (Women's Track and Field)
Cabe was a two-year member of Augsburg's women's track and field team, after transferring from Wisconsin-La Crosse, and became one of the top weight throwers in school history. In her first indoor meet as an Auggie in 1999, she set the school record for the weight throw, and continued to build on that mark until setting a then-MIAC-record 57-feet, 10-1/4-inch effort in winning the league championship. Lind won the MIAC title in the indoor weight throw in 1999 and finished second in 2000. In NCAA Division III national competition, she placed second in the nation in the event in both 1999 and 2000, earning All-American honors. In outdoor track and field, despite having to recover from a foot injury during her senior season, she set Augsburg's school record in the hammer throw (156-feet-7) in 2000, en route to finishing second in the 2000 MIAC outdoor championships and ninth in the event at the NCAA Division III national championships. She also appeared at the NCAA outdoor championships in her sophomore season at Wisconsin-La Crosse, finishing fourth in the hammer throw at the 1998 meet. A psychology and religion major at Augsburg with a 3.88 grade-point average, she earned Senior Honor Athlete honors in 2000. She earned MIAC Academic All-Conference Honor Roll honors, U.S. Track and Field Coaches Association All-Academic Team honors and CoSIDA Academic All-District honors in 2000, in addition to earning Dean's List honors. She was active in Campus Ministry and as an assistant hall director for Mortensen Hall during her college years. Since graduating in 2001, Cabe has worked for the Edina Public Schools Community Education department, starting as a recreation leader and now managing a site at Concord Elementary School. She also is a member and past conference chair of the Minnesota School Age Care Alliance. Cabe and her husband, Chris, have one son, Liam, and live in Maple Grove, Minn.

STU ENGEN '86 (Men's Basketball)
Engen played two seasons of men's basketball at Augsburg as a forward, after transferring from Normandale Community College, and made a dramatic impact for two of the best teams in school history. An All-MIAC first-team selection in both of his Auggie campaigns (1984-85 and 1985-86), he averaged 13.1 points and 5.2 rebounds per-game on the 1985 Auggie squad that won the MIAC title and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division III national tournament, finishing 21-7. In 1985-86, he led the team in both scoring (16.0 ppg) and rebounding (7.9 rpg) on a team that finished 18-8. In his two seasons (53 games), he scored 771 points, good for 34th in school history in career scoring, averaging 14.5 points per-game. He graduated from Augsburg with a degree in adapted physical education in 1986, and earned his master's degree from the University of South Dakota in 1990. After graduating, he began a successful coaching career, first as an assistant at Augsburg for two seasons and as an assistant at South Dakota for two years. He went 41-16 as head coach at Western Wisconsin Technical College (La Crosse, Wis.) from 1990-92, earning conference and region Coach of the Year honors in 1992. He then moved to Upper Iowa University, where his teams won three Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference regular-season titles and one conference tournament title, advancing to the NCAA Division III national tournament twice. His 135-70 record at Upper Iowa is still the school's record for career wins, and he earned IIAC Coach of the Year honors three times. In 2000, he moved to become the head coach at Wisconsin-La Crosse, where he led the team to its best record in 20 seasons with a 17-9 finish in 2001-02, earning Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors. He then spent eight seasons (2002-10) as head coach at Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he earned Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament runner-up honors in 2002-03, after finishing 19-10 -- the best mark for the school in 28 years. Engen and his wife, Mary, have four children – daughters Mikkel, Alyse, Tierza, and son Everett – and live in Moorhead, Minn.

MITCH HEGLAND '91 (Wrestling)
One of the top lightweight wrestlers in Augsburg history, Hegland was a key member of Auggie teams that were part of the ascent to national dominance in small-college wrestling. A two-time All-American at 118 pounds, Hegland finished sixth nationally in 1989 and fifth nationally in 1990, and was a member of teams that finished eighth in 1988, third in 1989 and second in 1990, while winning MIAC team titles all four years. Hegland won the MIAC individual title at 118 pounds in 1990, earning conference meet Most Valuable Player honors. Hegland was a team captain his senior year and finished his career with a 125-48 record, including 300 takedowns. Hegland then served as an assistant coach on the 1990-91 Augsburg squad that captured its first-ever NCAA Division III wrestling national championship. Following his graduation from Augsburg in 1991 with a degree in elementary education, he later earned his master's degree and school administration licensure. He is currently working towards his Educational Doctorate degree in Leadership. Hegland has spent 20 years in the teaching profession, most of it spent in the Eden Prairie school district as a fifth- and sixth-grade teacher. Most recently, he has worked as a reading and math specialist, as well as a teacher observer and coach. He is currently working on the district's administrative team as a positive behavior intervention specialist. Hegland spent 20 years as a community and high school wrestling coach, including 10 years as Eden Prairie High School's head coach. The Hegland family is involved with church and volunteer work in the Twin Cities, including house-building projects in Mexico, working with orphaned and abandoned children in Honduras, and teaching and providing professional development to teachers in Guatemala. He serves on the board of Global Connect, a volunteer organization in the Eden Prairie schools. Hegland and his wife, Lois, have three children – Abby, Peter and Melaku – and live in Eden Prairie, Minn.

KARA (SEIBEL) HOARD '96 (Women's Soccer)
One of the top women's soccer forwards in school history, Hoard was a two-time All-MIAC honoree (1994 and 1995), and earned UMBRO All-Central Region second-team honors in her senior season. In 1995, she set a single-season school record for points (38), with her 13 goals and 12 assists both standing as second-most in a single season in school history. Her 26 career assists are a school record, while she stands second in school history in both goals (31) and total points (88). She led the team in goals in 1991, 1994 and 1995, was named team most valuable player in 1994. She was a team co-captain her senior year. A business finance major at Augsburg, she was named Augsburg's Senior Honor Athlete in 1996. Following graduation, she worked as an investigator for an insurance company for eight years, before taking five years off from the working world to start a family. She currently works at the Loan Service Center in Wyoming, Minn., and has volunteered as a coach and administrator for her children's sports teams. Hoard and her husband, Jim, have two daughters – Savanah and Sophie – and live in North Branch, Minn.

MATT KRETLOW '91 (Wrestling)
One of the best middleweight wrestlers ever at Augsburg, Kretlow earned All-American honors three times and was a member of Augsburg's first NCAA Division III wrestling national championship team in 1991. In national competition, he finished eighth at 158 pounds in 1988, fourth at 150 pounds in 1989 and second at 158 pounds in 1991. He also won three MIAC individual titles – at 158 pounds in 1989 and 1990, and at 167 pounds in 1991. He had a 49-4 record in his senior season and 40-4 record his junior campaign, en route to setting a school record for victories, with a 168-25-2 career mark. His Auggie squads finished in the top 10 each of his four years – eighth in 1988, third in 1989, second in 1990 and as national champions in 1991 – while winning the MIAC title each of those years and producing a dual-meet record of 51-4, including a perfect 40-0 record his final three seasons. A two-year captain for the Auggies, Kretlow spent two seasons as an Augsburg assistant coach following his career, then returned to his hometown of Owatonna, Minn., where he has spent 18 years as an assistant coach for the Owatonna High School wrestling program. In 2001, he was named Section 1AAA Assistant Coach of the Year by his fellow section coaches. Kretlow earned his degree in marketing and management from Augsburg in 1991, and has spent the past 18 years working for Federated Insurance in the claims function, most recently as a claims supervisor in the Environmental Claims department. He has been active as a slow-pitch softball player for the past 20 years, winning several Minnesota state titles and earning national runner-up honors in 2001, where he was named first-team All-American at the national tournament. He has also served as a youth sports coach and administrator, and has taught Sunday School at Trinity Lutheran Church in Owatonna for eight years. Kretlow and his wife, Arla, have three children – Stephanie, Sydney and Drew – and live in Owatonna, Minn.

PAT PIEPENBURG '69 (Women's Basketball)
Piepenburg was a member of the fabled Auggiettes women's basketball teams in the pre-Title IX era, teams under Augsburg Hall of Fame coach LaVonne Johnson Peterson '50 that dominated competition against local college teams and Minneapolis Park Board teams from the 50s to the early 70s. According to stories in the Augsburgian yearbook, the Auggiettes lost just four games in Piepenburg's four seasons, with the team having an unbeaten season her junior year. Piepenburg was the team's leading scorer in both her junior and senior years. In a profile of Peterson in the Augsburg Now magazine in 1979, the coach described Piepenburg as one of the outstanding players she had coached, saying that “She had a wing spread like Meadowlark.” Piepenburg graduated cum laude with a physical education degree in 1969 and began a 35-year career of teaching and coaching in Atwater, Minn., teaching physical education at a variety of grade levels, while also coaching basketball and track and field. During her eight years of coaching (1971-79), her basketball teams won five conference titles, while her track and field teams won six conference titles. After retiring from coaching, she purchased the family's farm from her father, where she poured her time into gardening, fishing, hunting and doing conservation projects – conservation reserve projects, filter strips, shelterbelts, wetland restorations and food plots – to enhance wildlife habitat and water quality. In 2000, she was named Meeker County's Outstanding Conservationist of the Year. Piepenburg lives in Grove City, Minn., where she is active in her church (St. Paul's Lutheran) and involved with the Litchfield Area Mentorship Program.

ANGIE RIEGER '01 (Women's Hockey/Volleyball)
One of the best all-around athletes in Augsburg history, Rieger shined as an athlete on both the women's hockey and volleyball teams at Augsburg. In women's hockey, she was a key member of Auggie squads that won the 1998-99 and 1999-00 MIAC championships, while advancing to the first-ever Division III national tournament, the American Women's College Hockey Alliance finals in Boston, Mass., in 2000. A three-time All-MIAC selection, she was named MIAC Player of the Year in both 1999-00 and 2000-01, was a three-time women's hockey All-American and was a Division III National Player of the Year finalist in both 1999-00 and 2000-01. She holds the Augsburg career records (games against varsity opponents-only) for goals (68), game-winning goals (16) and shorthanded goals (4), while standing second in points (120), third in power-play goals (12) and third in assists (52). She also holds single-season school records for goals (27) and game-winning goals (9). As an outside hitter in volleyball, she was named All-MIAC in both 1999 and 2000, while earning Lutheran Brotherhood Lutheran College All-America honorable-mention honors in 2000. She remains the only player to record more than 1,000 career kills in school history (1,030), while also holding school records for career kills per-set (2.94), attack percentage (.303) and solo blocks (100). She also recorded 1,052 career digs, 232 total blocks and 132 block assists in her career. An international business major with a 3.767 grade-point average, she was named Augsburg's 2011 co-Senior Honor Athlete, earned MIAC Academic All-Conference Honor Roll honors three times in both volleyball and women's hockey, and earned CoSIDA Academic All-District honors twice in 1999-2000. She earned her Master's of Business Administration degree in 2011 from St. Mary's University. For the past six-and-a-half years, she has worked for Cargill in various finance and accounting positions. She still remains active in adult leagues in both volleyball and hockey. She plays hockey for the Blue J's, which have won the USA Hockey A Division national title four times and placed second three times with her as a team member.

DON SKOY '73 (Football)
Skoy was an outstanding linebacker for the Augsburg football team in the early 1970s. He earned All-MIAC first-team honors in both 1971 and 1972, while earning honorable-mention all-conference honors in 1970. Skoy also earned Lutheran College All-America honors in 1970, 1971 and 1972. Skoy earned his degree in education (health and physical education) in 1973, and taught health and physical education for the Buhl schools (grades 7-12) from 1973-82. He served as football head coach at Buhl from 1974-81, with his team winning the conference title in 1977. He was named District 28 Coach of the Year by the Minnesota State Football Coaches Association in 1977. He also was girls' basketball coach at Buhl from 1975-79, and his 1977 team won the district and region title, playing in the Minnesota state tournament. Skoy served as football head coach at Hibbing Community College in the 1982 and 1983 seasons. For the past 27 years, he has served as a supervisor in the St. Louis County Public Health and Social Services Department. Skoy and his wife Julie live in Hibbing, Minn., and have six children – Evie, John, Rachel, Megan, Pete and Danny.